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ARE YOU READY?! I hope so, or you might get stuck with guys like Pat Misch or Oliver Perez.

99% sure this is Cohoon. (When you're surrounded by hundreds of players, many you've never heard of and all sorts of things going on ,sometimes you forget who you took a picture of. at least, I do. ) But this is him, He was warming up before his minor league game.

Edgy DC wrote: Jordany Valdespin, coming off his successful AFL campaign, was Rule V eligiible. So said Toby Hyde, and the Mets musta been reading, because BAM! they added him to the 40-man roster. This post could use an update. Valdespin played around with the big club early on this spring and looked good doing it. He's obviously not ready, but the early success will likely prompt some people, beat writers, etc, to mention him a lot. There are things he needs to work on in the minors, patience at the plate, properly tossing his manager baseballs to hit..

Kai was last seen sporting his green st. Patricks Day hat in Vine and Barley (great place btw) last night around 8:30. Him, Justin Turner, and Scott Hairston were in there for a half hour or so and then left. My wife asked him where he got the hat (she wants one) and he, somewhat sheepishly, said "actually, I play there." or something to that effect.

I kinda liked it, but I'm generally Emma Stone biased.

Ashie62 wrote: Well, it is that time of the year again. I did not participate last year so I may be out of school starting this thread. If not, any interest in a 10-12 person league through Yahoo or CBS?? I am willing to set it up. I guess we would need to know the preference as to AL, NL or both, and scoring style, head to head or 5X5 or standard roto. The 5X5 includes runs scored by batters and K's by pitchers. A potential draft date and time "could" be set for evening 3/28 or Sunday 3/29 I'm all ears..Ashie.. I could always join another game if you wanted to do something different than the NL only one we're doing. Maybe even on a different site with different style of play?

TransMonk wrote: I'm just of the opinion that now that we have so many awards shows that we have a season named after it, the Academy Awards should be held to a higher standard. They are the pinnacle of all of the award shows. They don't need to be yound and hip - there are a dozen other awards that can have that distinction. The Oscars should be glamorous and classy. Overall, I don't care one way or the other. I had no dogs in this race and was just looking for some Sunday night entertainment. But, Bob Hope is rolling in his fucking grave. If they're not young and hip, don't they become old and stuffy? ala the Rolling Stones at the Super Bowl type thing? I'm not sure there is an easy answer. I'm not sure what the 'high standard' is without being prim proper and boring. But again, I'm probably the target demographic that it's trying to more appeal to. There are definitely too many awards shows though.

TransMonk wrote: IMO, Franco and Hathaway were making jokes between themselves. The overall writing was stiff. Hathaway flubbed several lines and ad-libbed her goofs. Franco seemed like he really didn't care if he was there or not. The exchanges between Timberlake and Kunis made several references to one of the documentary nominees that no one got. Kirk Douglas went on WAY to long. Hathaway gushed over to many of the presenters and blew too many kisses. The whole production seemed unprofessional. I enjoyed the opening scenes and I liked the way the screen was set up. There were a couple of audience-at-home jokes that got a laugh. Whoever it was that read the short-films nominees made a reference to at-home ballots and Hathaway joked about a/the drinking game. The auto-tune thing may have been a little too MTVish, but everyone at the party i was at laughed. I thought the Charlie Scheen joke was topical. I think what passed as 'professional' is changing. Maybe it was a little bland/nondescript but I didn't get 'horrible'. (although I did find it annoying that every other person in my Twitter feed felt it necessary to mock and/or joke about how they weren't watching it. )

TransMonk wrote: It was just about the worst Oscar show ever. Yup. I'm always amazed that it takes 3+ hours to do what could easily be done in one. Hathaway + Franco = horrible. It was a night of hosts and presenters constantly upstaging one another. I like/liked Hathaway. I guess they weren't great or anything,but I wouldn't say horrible. (the 3+ hour thing is another story, plus why'd it start at 8:30..usually 8 right?) Isn't the hosts and presenters upstaging each other just how things are done these days? Not saying it's "as good" as previous shows (And certainly could be generational, I'm not exactly old enough to have a read standard of judgement), but I didn't think it was bad. Kanye West certainly wasn't unusual, he was just just extreme. Maybe I just don't have high expectations, I haven't, won't, and don't really want to see most of the movies nominated. (What I took away from the show/party i was at was that i should see the Fighter and the Social Network wasn't as boring as I expect it to be) So the 'best' awards don't really reflect what I'm looking for in a movie anyway. What was it that was so bad about the hosts/show? just the oneupmanship? o

Vic Sage wrote: congrats on your clean sweep, but that night was hardly "perfect". It was just about the worst Oscar show ever. Seemed fine to me. But I dunno how to judge these things. Maybe I just don't expect much.

wow, it was that long ago? I think it was pretty classic. at the forefront of scary new cloning stuff and new technology and whatnot. (like most of Crithton's stuff actually..)

Fman99 wrote: OK, well, if we're going to push things out till 9:30 then I can do any weeknight. Doesn't have to be a Wednesday so we can accommodate for smg58 that way. I have changed the draft to Tuesday 3/22 at 9:30 PM. Again, if that borks someone please let me know ASAP. At some point I will lose flexibility on draft scheduling. (Also 3/24 is out as it is Fboy's birthday, and the week of 3/26-4/1 I am on vacation.) 3/25 is my birthday. But wouldn't want to do it that last week anyway, need to have a couple of days to shuffle around those bench guys that end up not making the team.

I'd prefer the live draft not 3/15-3/20, but that's rather varied and probably one of the best times for it.

Fman99 wrote: I'm happy to start a league up like last year. Here to check interest levels and get any dates in advance that you don't want a live draft. I managed to miss the draft last year and got totally totally screwed due to the NL only format, but i'm good with whatever we decide too.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: There were billboards for this movie all over Lisbon this past summer. I heard it was a fun movie. I might watch it when it hits cable, if it hasn't already done so. Watched it on DVD, so it can't be far from cable if it's not there already.

Salt With Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber. Has nothing to do with Strategetic Arms Limitiation Treaties. Didn't care for it much. It was decently entertaining as far as action movies go, but the twists were very transparent and it plays on what seems like a very overplayed USA-Russia relationship whenever you're talking about spies. I equated it to the Bourne Identity a little, although nowhere near as good. Fair amount of crazy car chases and some niftiness getting out of tight jams with explosive creativity, but nothing special.

Land Before Time is a Classic. I dunno, maybe you had to be there.

My problem is always that 'best picture' is very very subjective. And they don't have a set of rules to vote by. What they vote for as 'best' is not the reason I go to the movies, which is why I often don't see those movies. I loved Inception, but I have no interest in seeing Black Swan for instance. (though I will, since the wife wants to) I happened upon a review (actually I think Keith Law linked it) of No Strings Attached that Ebert wrote, and when I actually watched the movie I was laughing at him. The movie wasn't amazing or anything, but the review read like "They do _this_ in the movie, when they really should've done this. Why don't movies ever do _this_?" He wrote a review for the movie as if he wrote the script and they bastardized it and made an adaptation. It was a sappy romantic comedy, it wasn't ever intended to be an exploration or documentary on the concept of friends with benefits and I think it's unfair to review it as if it was.

Was probably more entertaining than the football game. but wow, 1994?

Valadius wrote: Eh, due to the fact that they split the book in two, it doesn't have any kind of satisfying ending. I'm glad they split it, because it would be impossible to cram all the important plot points into two and a half hours, but they could have chosen a better spot to make the split. I actually thought it was a fairly decent place to make the split. But I haven't read the book in a while either, so maybe I'm forgetting how much still has to be done. It's certainly a stereotypical place to split a movie.

I actually enjoyed this one, surprisingly. I thought most of the others were pretty much clip-show format, where they basically animate the scenes everyone wants to see, but did a poor job with continuity and plot. But maybe this book just has more of that, there's a lot less non-plot stuff in the book for sure. I saw it in IMAX at 9:30 AM on a Saturday. cheaper, and less squeeling teenagers.

dgwphotography wrote: My oldest saw HP at last night's midnight show, and said it was the best movie of the series. I bought my tickets yesterday after work. People waiting online already (despite there being a midnight showing in every single theatre, therefore not sold out in the least bit. There was also a 3:30am showing and a 6am showing. yikes) lots of Hermoines in short skirts and wizarding robes. among other crazies. I hope it's better than the others. I always felt like they were basically clip shows masquerading as movies.

I think the books go quickly from really young adult, to much older young adult as they move along. Books 5 and 6 for example, with all the kissing and crushing and girls and snogging and whatever.

seawolf17 wrote: They told me most of the Friday night showings -- and both of the midnights tonight -- were already sold out. Glad I ran down there today. They already have big signs and arrows and barriers up to control the crowd tonight. That doesn't surprise me. Glad i'm going in the morning, usually weeds out some of the crazies.